Published by Conran Octopus
7th September 2009 | £35.00 | Hardback

“I have always been optimistic about the role design can play in improving the quality of people’s lives. Today, more than ever before, good intelligent design and green design are one and the same.” Terence Conran

Following on from the bestselling Essential House Book and Ultimate House Book, Eco House Book is the complete guide to home improvement the environmentally friendly way. Whether you want to redecorate or redesign your home, Terence Conran explains just how you can reduce your home’s carbon footprint with practical solutions that are both possible and pleasing.

The average household could save £340 and 1.5 tonnes of CO2 a year by being more energy efficient and in the current economic climate, it’s important to ensure the running costs of your home are as low as possible. What is more effective, a rooftop wind turbine or solar panels? What type of water-saving fixtures and fittings are available and how efficient are they? Eco House Book provides you with the information you need to make effective choices that will help cut your bills, your carbon footprint and water consumption and will directly improve your quality of life.

Environmental issues should be part of every decision you make – from selecting the fabric for soft furnishings to designing and siting a home extension. Most homes are not decorated, designed, constructed or serviced with eco-friendliness in mind. But you don’t have to start again from scratch to make a huge different to the way your home impacts on the environment.

There is a great deal we can do to convert our existing homes into greener, healthier place to live. This book explains how relatively small changes can be made, including repairs to improve energy efficiency and water saving tips, to more dramatic overhauls such as redesigning room use, converting basements and extending your home.

Special focus is given to reducing the vast amounts of energy and water that homes consumer on a daily basis, with advice on low energy lighting strategies and decorative choices, improving insulation and reducing energy use, the latest green heating systems, alternative ways of generating power, and electricity reducing appliances.

As we are urged to change our lifestyles to reduce our carbon footprint and consumption of water, there really has never been a better time to green your home.

THE AUTHOR
Terence Conran is one of the world’s leading designers, furniture-makers, restaurateurs, retailers. He is chairman of Conran Holdings, the parent company of his retail and restaurant businesses, and Chairman of Conran & Partners, his architecture and design practice. There are Conran Shops in London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Marunouchi, Nogoya and Fukoka. Terence also designs furniture for Content and Benchmark. In 1989 he founded the Design Museum, the first of its kind in the world, and his is the Provost of the Royal College of Art.

 

Hot Brands Cool Places Green Award 

Here at Hot Brands we recognise the importance of making our homes greener and healthier. What we love about this book is that as well as giving sensible advice about the small and more significant actions we can take to create a greener environment is that this book does it with such style. It is for this reason  that we are delighted to award The Eco House book by Sir Terence Conran this month's Hot Brands Cool Places Green Award.